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Diane
Coburn Bruning
Founder and Artistic Director
Diane Coburn Bruning (Artistic Director, Choreographer) has received a
Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year NEA Fellowship and two New York Foundation
for the Arts Fellowships in choreography among other awards. She was named
by Dance Magazine named as one of ã25 to Watch.ä Diane has worked with
companies as Atlanta Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet,
Boston Ballet, American Repertory Ballet, Joffrey II, Nashville Ballet,
Ballet Chicago, Daghdha Dance, Juilliard Dance Ensemble, Pittsburgh and
Glimmerglass Operas among others. She has received fellowships from The
National Endowment for the Arts, Sundance Film Institute, Meet the Composer,
Harkness Foundation, New York State Council for the Arts, Heathcote
Foundation, McKnight Foundation among others. Diane serves on grants panels,
leads choreographic workshops, and has served as a teaching artist for
Lincoln Center Institute and New York City Ballet. She is a graduate of
Butler Universityâs Jordan College of Fine Arts, from which she received
their 2003 Alumni Achievement Award, and New York Universityâs Gallatin
Division. She attended Yale University as a special fellow studying with
renowned stage designers Jennifer Tipton in lighting and Ming Cho Lee in
scenery, Diane designs lights for her some of her ballets. She was named
Director of the 2008 National Craft of Choreography Conference to be held in
Seattle in June. Diane is a founding member of CDP.
Rona
Carr
Secretary
Rona is the founder and principal
of The Austin International
Group (TAIG), a small business
advisory firm that provides
services and support to small
and medium-sized companies
in organizational development,
business communications, program
and logistical planning and
management, and personal coaching
and counseling. Prior to founding
TAIG, she was the Director
of Human Resources for Intralinks,
Columbia’s Graduate
School of Business, and Executive
Vice President for Administration
and Development with the LEAD
Program. With an interest
in education and the arts
since childhood, her volunteerism
has included serving on the
boards of the LEAD Program,
Sarah Lawrence College Alumni
Association, The Working Theatre,
and advisory committee for
the NYC Board of Education’s
Advisory Council for Technical
Education. She’s also
worked as an Associate Producer
with The Manhattan Class Company,
and as a Producing Director
with the Makepeace Theater
Company. A graduate of Sarah
Lawrence College, and native
Californian, she resides with
her husband Richard in New
York City. Rona joined the
board in the fall of 2004.
Tracy
Castle-Newman
Tracy is a Managing Director
in the Institutional Equities
Division at Morgan Stanley.
She is a member of the US
distribution management team
responsible for Soft Dollars,
Client and Business Analytics
and Talent Management. Tracy
joined Morgan Stanley in 1996
as a Product Controller for
the Institutional Equity Division
where she spent four years
in various positions of increasing
managerial responsibility.
Prior
to joining Morgan Stanley,
Tracy spent two years at Bankers
Trust and four years at The
Bank of New York in varying
managerial and finance related
positions. A
native Upstate New Yorker,
Tracy graduated from Virginia
Polytechnic Institute with
a Bachelors Degree in Finance.
She now lives in Westfield,
New Jersey with her husband,
Andrew Newman. Tracy joined
the board in the summer of
2006.
Dexter J. King
Dexter J. King graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Economics and holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business where he received a Fuqua Fellowship. He has spent close to a decade building a career in marketing by working on some of the world’s most storied and iconic brands. Dexter worked as a brand management intern at the Procter and Gamble Company on Head and Shoulders and then continued his career at the Coca-Cola Company where he worked on brands like diet Coke, DASANI, Cherry Coke, and Fruitopia. He then moved to Moet Hennessy USA, the luxury spirits arm of global luxury goods purveyor, LVMH, where he worked on the Prestige Range of Hennessy Cognac. Dexter has received numerous awards or had his work recognized by leading publications like Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Biz Bash, the Robb Report, BrandWeek and Advertising Age. Dexter has recently moved to Pinnacle Foods, a company built to acquire and restore some of America’s most beloved brands. Dexter has lived in Brooklyn, NY since June of 2003 and joined the Board in Spring of 2007.
Christopher C. Lee
Christopher holds B.F.A. and M.M. degrees from
the Juilliard School, a Doctorate from SUNY Stony Brook,
and five honorary doctorates from foreign institutions.
He holds the State Department title of Official Musical
Ambassador of the United States and has toured the world
many times under their auspices. Chris has received
numerous awards, including a Fulbright. He has performed
as soloist with Leopold Stokowski and Arthur Fiedler
among other conductors, and has recorded for the CBS,
RCA, Desto, Everest, Arista, Delos and Quattro Corde
labels. He plays a violin made in Cremona, Italy by
Francesco Ruggieri in 1680, which once belonged to Leopold
Mozart. His recording of Grieg’s complete works
for piano and violin was released this spring. He plays
lead violin on Linda Ronstadt’s and Stevie Wonder’s
albums. Chris is a founding member and principal musician
of CDP and joined the board in the winter of 2004.
Sharon
Love
In her role as CEO of a leading national marketing services
firm, TPN, she oversees the management of 160 employees,
25 major clients, along with TPN’s charitable
endeavors. Sharon joined TPN in 1988, and during her
18-year tenure at the agency, she has managed the account
service for clients like ESPN, Frito-Lay, Gatorade,
Hershey, Miller and 7-Eleven. In 2001, TPN was acquired
by Omnicom. A native Texan, Sharon is a graduate of
The University of North Texas with degrees in Political
Science and English. She currently lives in Falls Village,
Conn., as well as New York City with her husband, Neil
Schlecht. She is a trustee on the Board of The Women's
Sports Foundation and is actively involved with the
Central Park Conservancy, The Women’s Shelter
of Dallas, and The Connecticut Public Library. Sharon
joined the board in Spring 2006.
Pooneh Mohazzabi
Ms. Mohazzabi serves as the Executive Director of the Global Offshoring and Outsourcing, UBS Investment Bank supporting the IT division globally. In this role, she manages a broad array of logistics functions to support them in all their offshoring/outsourcing initiatives for the Investment Bank covering number of countries including United States, UK, Brazil, India, Russia and Canada. Prior to UBS, she worked for Lehman Brothers, Bearing Point, American Management Systems, Hyperion Solutions and Siemens Nixdorf. Throughout her career, she worked in US and many cities in Europe including Munich, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Brussels and Vienna. Ms. Mohazzabi received her MBA degree in Finance from Schiller International University in Germany where she lived and worked for 7 years. Pooneh is fluent in German, Farsi and English.
Despite her busy work schedule at UBS, Pooneh dedicates much time volunteering for many organizations. At UBS, she is one of the Chairs for USB's Women's Network organization called All Bar None where she heads the Internal/External Partnership Program where she organizes many joint activities with other non-profits. Just this past year, Pooneh acted as the Captain of the Komen's Breast Cancer Run, put together a conference called "Road to the Top" where 200 senior executive members of the financial services industry attended. In addition, she also works with many other non-profit organizations including the New York Junior League, Women's Bond Club and Dress for Success. Pooneh joind the Board in Fall 2007.
Harsha Murthy
Harsha Murthy is a senior pharmaceuticals and financial executive with broad transactional and operational experience. Mr. Murthy is currently Managing Partner of Konanda Pharma Partners, a New York City-based private equity fund that invests in mature branded drugs and builds operating companies around those drugs. Prior to Konanda, Mr. Murthy served as Executive Vice President & Corporate Head- Strategic Planning and Business Development for King Pharmaceuticals, Inc (a NYSE-listed publicly traded pharmaceuticals company) and as Vice President-Administration and Strategy for Eyetech Pharmaceuticals, one of the most successful biotech companies in history that developed a drug to treat macular degeneration (the leading cause of blindness in the West). He has been a managing director at GE Capital and practiced corporate law in New York with Davis Polk & Wardwell and Latham & Watkins. Mr. Murthy has held numerous leadership roles on corporate and non-profit boards, including those of Electrolux Corporation, Duke University Libraries, Battery Dance Company of New York (chairman emeritus), the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (chairman emeritus), the Asian American Justice Center (executive committee), the Aplastic Anemia Foundation, CorbinDances (chairman), the Wellmont Hospital Foundation and CLT International. He has also lectured widely on international business and pharmaceutical industry topics before business, government and professional groups and at colleges and universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, the University of Richmond and Georgetown. Born in New Delhi, India of Indian parents, Mr. Murthy grew up in Ohio. Mr. Murthy graduated from Duke and Stanford Law School and did additional coursework at Harvard and Oxford. Harsha joined the Board in November 2007.
Jean
D. Myer
Treasurer
Jean retired from a 25-year
career with IBM, where she
managed sales, marketing,
and business development for
several product lines during
the technology advances of
the 70’s and 80’s.
She joined 3Com and retired
again in 2000 to devote her
time to the arts of New York
and to her passion, offshore
sailing. Active in the Cruising
Club of America, she is Yearbook
Chairman, and lecturer on
navigation for the Bonnell
Cove Foundation. Jean earned
her B.A. from Middlebury College.
Originally from Chicago, she
has lived in Somers since
1980. Jean joined the board
in the fall of 2004.
Susan Shin
Susan Shin is the founder and President of Shin Advisors, LLC (Shin Advisors), which is a branding, business and revenue development consultancy that also offers comprehensive and integrated branding, marketing, events marketing and communications support for luxury lifestyle, fashion, jewelry, beauty, entertainment, art and hospitality related companies/brands, as well as non-profit and philanthropic organizations. Shin Advisors takes a holistic approach and creatively applies traditional and innovative branding, marketing and communications methodologies across diverse industries to achieve maximum brand equity, impact and effective results. Ms. Shin also continues to maintains a trademark law practice at Karcioglu & Associates, which services some of Shin Advisors’ clients. Prior to establishing Shin Advisors LLC, Ms. Shin was an intellectual properties lawyer, concentrating on international trademark, branding, copyright and advertising law. Ms. Shin graduated from Columbia University and received her Juris Doctorate and Masters in International Law at Cornell Law School. She practiced Intellectual Property (IP) law, first with the premier IP firm of Pennie and Edmonds, LLP and then at Brown, Raysman et. al., where she established and chaired the Trademark Practice, followed by Goodwin Procter LLP, where she built the transactional trademark law practice. Ms. Shin also was an Adjunct Professor of International Intellectual Property at New York University. Ms. Shin also serves on the Advisory Boards or Board of Directors of The Afghanistan Foundation and RAVESQ Magazine, the Junior Boards of the American Ballet Theatre, the Standing Committee of Save Venice, Inc., and is the Chairperson of the Friends of New Yorkers for Children. Susan also chairs significant fundraisers for the Friends of Scotland, Asia Society, and Central Park Conservancy and has been the past chair of the Love Heals Benefit for the Allison Getz Foundation, Save Venice and a number of other benefits. She co-chaired Chamber Dance Project’s most recent benefit with Susan Smith Ellis and joined the Chamber Dance Project Board in May 2005. Ms. Shin has appeared, been profiled or featured in diverse media such as CNBC News, CNN, The Daily News, The Daily, The New Yorker, The New York Post, The New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, American Law Journal, The NY Sun, New York Magazine, New York Social Diary, Manhattan Society, Departures, Quest, Gotham, Hamptons, Avenue, Audrey, Absolute, Vogue, Rave, Social Life, Prestige (Asia), Elle (China), Marie Claire (Taiwan) and more.
Skip
Auch
Judy Boomer
John Claassen
John's work in arts management began as Booking Director and Director of the Opera Division for Sheldon Soffer Management from 1992 to 1999. This was followed by five years as Booking Director at Pentacle DanceWorks Inc. where John began working with the Limón Dance Company until 2005. With the impending 60th anniversary of the company in 2006 and José Limón's 100th Birthday Celebration in 2008 the decision was made to focus the company's energies in-house at which time John started to work as Producing Director of the company to the present day. John's prior experience as set designer, singer/dancer and freelance illustrator have given him a broad overview of the performing and visual arts. He first attended the School of Visual Arts in the fine arts certificate program in 1969, followed by the BFA Program in vocal studies at the Manhattan School of Music in 1972 and finally the Masters degree Program in set and costume design at Brooklyn College in 1982. Related experience has included: The Santa Fe Opera as Associate Designer 1969 and 1970, the Public Theater as Prop Artist Supervisor 1986 to 1988 and Box Office Manager for the Japan Society from 1991 to 1992.
John's theater design's have been seen with Le Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Florida State Opera, Greensboro Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Mississippi Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Hamilton, Ontario, Opera Delaware among many others.
Drew Coburn
Patrick
Sean Flaherty
Patrick
is an award-winning creative director with experience in all mediums, branding some of the world’s largest companies first with firms such as Young and Rubicam and recently as founder and president of brandhalo.com. Patrick’s campaigns include the NYSE “The world puts its stock in us” and the Heineken “start” with his most recent campaign for Ameritrust now seen in print and in television nationwide. Patrick served on the Board of Chamber Dance Project from 2005-08.
Michael Holzman
Dr. Holzman
is the founder of Chelmsford Associates. He received a doctorate from the University of California, San Diego. He taught and was an administrator at the University of California and the University of Southern California. He served as director of the California/USC Writing Project (k-12 teacher professional development) and the Model Literacy Program at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Holzman has been an advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation’s national Minority Female Single Parent Employment Skills Program, an evaluator of and advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation’s teacher professional development initiatives in the arts and humanities in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, and project director of the Bruner Foundation’s evaluation of the New York State Community Schools initiative. With Dr. Jane MacKillop he designed an adult literacy initiative for Philadelphia and co-edited The Gateway: Paths to Adult Learning, a national literacy program which enabled at least 30,000 adults to learn to read.
Dr. Holzman was a founding Senior Advisor for the Panasonic Foundation, where he participated in the development of the Foundation’s “school-house to statehouse” systemic school reform initiative. His responsibilities at Panasonic included evaluation, analysis, planning and implementation of structural reform and standards-based curricular improvements in school districts from San Diego to Miami, Minneapolis to Baton Rouge and a number of state departments of education.
As Program Officer for Education at the American Council of Learned Societies, Dr. Holzman designed and operated a national humanities teacher development program, which brought outstanding teachers together with world-class scholars at UCLA, the University of Colorado, Harvard and other sites around the country. He created and implemented a teacher exchange program between the United States and China, which improved the English language skills of teachers of English in selective Chinese secondary schools and introduced American teachers and their students to Chinese language and culture.
As a consultant to the Schott Foundation for Public Education Dr. Holzman is the author of the Foundation’s series: Public Education and Black Male Students: A State Report Card. Dr. Holzman has served as a program director and development officer for a variety of other organizations and as a consultant to a wide variety of educational, arts, legal and public health organizations in the United States, United Kingdom and the Middle East has helped them to raise many millions of dollars for their work. He is the author of a number of books, articles and reviews in the fields of education, literature, literacy and history. His James Jesus Angleton, The CIA and the Craft of Counterintelligence will be published in May, 2008, by the University of Massachusetts Press.
Maja Leibovitz
Maja Leibovitz is President & CEO of Serious Celebrations. The company specializes in event creation, management, marketing and logistics. Serious Celebrations’ clients include Financial Times, The Journal of Financial Advertising and Marketing, Omnicom, Time Inc., The Gramercy Institute, United Cancer Charities, Team Continuum Inc., The International Advertising Association, art plus technology, the Financial Communications Forum and the Financial Communications Society. Prior to launching Serious Celebrations, Leibovitz garnered nearly a decade of event management experience as Executive Director of the Financial Communications Society. In this role, she led the behind-the-scenes business of this not-for-profit financial communications forum. Leibovitz currently serves as Executive Secretary on the Board of Directors of Team Continuum, a not-for-profit charity that cares for the immediate needs of Cancer Patients from around the world who are in treatment in New York City’s medical facilities. She is also a member of Team Continuum and, as such, participates, in the NYC Marathon under this charity’s banner. Leibovitz currently serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Business Communicators. She served as President of the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps for three years and also co-chaired the Maccabiah Sports for Israel in the Table Tennis division. Leibovitz graduated from Queens College with a degree in Media and Philosophy. In her spare time, she trains in Table Tennis with Tahl Leibovitz, a world known Table Tennis Champion and enjoys running and spending time with her son, daughter and husband.
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